CRYSTAL PALACE

Aspen

300 E. Hyman St. Aspen Colorado Tel: +1 970-925-1455

This Aspen institution has been feting and feeding audiences for years in an historic brick building in downtown Aspen. The entertainment is Broadway musical-meets-politics, or musical satire,where the servers double as entertainers, and the fare is not exactly contemporary, but it still packs 'em in nightly. Among the culinary offerings are escargot bourguignonne, onion soup gratinee, mushroom caps stuffed with crabmeat, prime rib au jus, roast rack of lamb , and with a nod to the East, shrimp hoisin. The entire evening costs $49.50, though appetizers and dessert are extra.